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The COntext INterchange (COIN) strategy is an approach to solving the problem of interoperability of semantically heterogeneous data sources through context mediation. COIN has used its own notation and syntax for representing ontologies. More recently, the OWL Web Ontology Language is becoming established as the W3C recommended ontology language. We propose the use of the COIN strategy to solve context disparity and ontology interoperability problems in the emerging Semantic Web – both at the ontology level and at the data level. In conjunction with this, we propose a version of the COIN ontology model that uses OWL and the emerging rules interchange language, RuleML.
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Tan, P., Madnick, S., Tan, KL. (2005). Context Mediation in the Semantic Web: Handling OWL Ontology and Data Disparity Through Context Interchange. In: Bussler, C., Tannen, V., Fundulaki, I. (eds) Semantic Web and Databases. SWDB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31839-2_11
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